Bradley reminiscences about the time the Rutherford Electric Membership Corporation brought electricity to the remote sections of rural northern Polk County in 1948. The big trucks could not move over the non-maintained state road, so the company hired out the family mule, Ol' Mabel, to drag the poles and lines to the places where they would be set.

Concord Masonic Lodge No. 58 will celebrate its 200 anniversary on November 22, 2011. The Lodge had met ten times before receiving its official charter from the state's Grand Lodge on that date. Books of the Lodge's minutes record its activities from 1811.